City of the Dead, aim for the headLine up your shots & make 'em eat leadMakes you see red at all that Umbrella's doneTurned all the residents evil one by oneSo grab your gear and lock & loadform some kind of plan & hit the roadScrounge a Magnum, boomstick or grenadestake your pick, ammo's scarce as hope fadesBeat feet to meet what's left of the streetor back alleys & rooftops if you can't take the heat'Cause too many zombies roam the streets like they ownthe place & give chase to all survivors aloneto face it, the strong & cunning, lasting this longBut other biohazards still lurk, work gone wrongby mad scientists up to all kinds of No Goodmessing with nature in ways no one shouldStill these creatures attack, won't cut you any slackyour kill count so high that you lost trackWhen you bust a cap, don't forget to double-tapeven though you know you've walked into a trapOh snap, as if all these monsters weren't enoughnow they're gonna blow the whole city upThe countdown is set, so call off all betsRest In Peace, Raccoon City, we will never forget...

Chapter End Notes:

-10/18/12

2012 was a rollercoaster year, and not exactly the fun kind. In addition to long weeks at a stretch "On Call" (basically job hunting... :| (Blank Stare) ), I spent parts of it directing traffic at Universal Studios. For what it's worth, the job itself wasn't so bad, just everything else, from the unreliable hours to the absurd commute from the Valley (which, ironically, would no longer be an issue now that I live in Hollywood, but would have made little difference in the long run, due to the hours' inherent instability outside of summer, but whatever... :( ), and it ended up costing us our old apartment. It was also the year I started branching out into Nerdcore. Though I've been a lifelong fan of Weird Al, and had been following Lars and a couple others for a while by that point, this was the same year I got into Front-a-Lot, MC Hawking, Beefy, Dual Core, Jesse Dangerously, and Schaefer the Darklord, among others. So I was working Halloween Horror Nights, and frequently had "Bruce Campbell" stuck in my head, what with all the zombies walking around, and the whole Lower Lot getting converting into Silent Hill that year and all, coupled with my job at the garage mostly consisting of counting cars with a ticker. And they recruited an army of zombies for the "Walking Dead" themed Terror Tram that year, shambling around the rest of the lot between shifts, and zombies always put me in mind of Resident Evil. Not exactly a mentally taxing task (which is why it basically pays Minimum Wage... :( ), but since I had this song stuck in my head, my mind started cranking out alternate verses, including this one, which I recently stumbled across while sorting out my old notes from that year. :D

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